Previously, on Lonely Souls...
Week I
One Monday, Oka Ruto meets Taro Yamada, her classmate, on her way to school. She learns that his dear friend, Kokona, rumored to have a crush on him, has gone missing recently. Choosing to skip her club activities that day to spend time with him, and they form a bond. Meanwhile, Shin, her clubmate and friend, watches them, envious of Taro and Oka's feelings for him.
Info-chan contacts Shin soon afterwards to make a deal with him – she will give him information about Oka's whereabouts and her relationship with Taro, claiming it will benefit one of her other clients. Shin agrees.
Oka and Taro spend Tuesday together.
Wednesday at night, Oka has a nightmare that she assumes to be a vision of her death. She doesn't trust Shin enough to tell him about it, and she knows Taro won't believe her if she tells him the truth. She talks to Taro about her feelings, and he comforts her by hugging her as she cries. Info-chan sends video footage of the whole scene to Shin.
After school, the Basu sister whom Oka stalked daily, bully her. Fourtunately, Taro appears to save her and they walk home together.
On Thursday, Oka's vision from before comes true – she is attacked by demonic hands and has a vision of past murders in their school. She also learns the true reason why Kokona went missing – she's dead. Shin finds her unconsious in the occult club room and brings her to the nurse's office
Upon waking up, Oka finds herself in the newly hired Muja Kina's office with Taro, who she assumes brought her there. She later decides to find out more about her visions, and goes to her club, where she encounters Shin – she tells him about the murders, and sees his dark aura.
On Friday, Oka wants to learn more about her vision from the day before, so she goes to her club again. On lunchtime that day, Taro tries to find out why she's been avoiding him, but she can't tell him about the murders. When she has to leave him without an explaination, she realises how much she really needs him and that she loves him.
Later that day, Muja is killed by the serial killer who killed Kokona and her body is found.
Week II
On Monday the next week, the serial killer convinces the Basu sisters to pour water on Oka to give her the opprotunity for an easier murder. Her plan fails, but on her way to the locker room, Oka, soaked in water, runs into Taro. She isn't sure what transpires beetween them then.
Shin soon learns about what the Basu sisters have done and begins to plot their murder for how they hurt Oka. His plans align with the serial killer's, as she wants to eliminate Kaho Kanon, a teacher who suspects Muja Kina was murdered.
Meanwhile, Supana and Kokuma chat in the occult club. Kokuma reveals that she likes girls.
Taro finds Oka on her way to her club and stops her. He believes whatever she's doing in secret is wrong and should be stopped for her own good. She refuses and runs away from him to her club.
After school, Kokuma confesses her feelings for Supana.
Info-chan plots tomorrow's murders of Kaho Kanon and the Basu sisters.
On Tuesday, Oka is alone in her club again. Taro, alone as well, realises he loves her and misses her.
Meanwhile, Shin begins his plan to murder the Basu sisters with Info-chan's guidance. He steals a katana from the headmaster's office, leaves it for the serial killer to find, she kills Kaho Kanon and then leaves the katana for him on the rooftop.
After school, the Basu sisters come to the rooftop where Shin kills them both. However, Sakyu isn't killed and is revelaed to be a succubus, which she turns into and attacks Shin. He's powerless to stop her. Inkyu Basu turns into an incubus and her sister lets her feed on Shin. They kiss, but the Incubus is stopped by the Succubus, who sees Oka on the far end of the rooftop. Both demons move to attack her.
A sudden burst of power from Oka saves her from the demons and turns them back into humans as she runs away from school, terrified.
On Wednesday night, Oka has another vision – she sees herself as a demon, a goddess even. She talks to her mother about it, who seems to know more than she claims to.
At school, Oka is ripped beetween dimensions until she leaves her body and finds that she's capable of reading Shin's thoughts. He pushes her away and sees her memories of Taro and her feelings for him. He's devastated, which enables her to read his mind. She learns about everything, but can't make sense of what happened the day before. She doesn't know he killed the Basu sisters, only that he was there. She's terrified of him and doesn't want anything to do with him.
On lunchtime, she comes back to Taro who hugs her once again and comforts her.
Afterschool, Oka confronts Shin on her way home about what she saw in his mind.
Meanwhile, Supana feels pressured by Kokuma's recent confession since she doesn't know if she feels the same way about her.
On Thursday, a new teacher arrives at school as a substitue for Kaho Kanon – Mida Rana. She openly flirts with students in class and on lunchtime tells Taro to stay with her. Despite Oka's resistance, he obeys her and Oka is forced to leave the classroom and spend the break alone.
Mida Rana seduces Taro and they make out in the classroom. He realises what they're doing is wrong at the last moment and runs out of the classroom and away from ms. Rana.
Shin keeps running into the Basu sisters and rethinking his previous actions. He also notices that the younger girl reminds him of the Incubus whom he's kissed. Inkyu decides to learn the truth about what happened to her and her sister.
Oka quickly learns of the rumors surrounding ms. Rana and Taro. She feels betrayed. Info-chan tries to get Shin to use the opprotunity to get close to her, but he refuses to take advantage of her weak state.
After school, Oka confronts her mother again about the paranormal, and learns that she's not actually a human – her real father is a demon whom her mother met when she was her age. Oka doesn't know how to deal with this reveal, but comforts her mother and reassures her that she'll be careful with her powers.
At night, the Incubus appears in Inkyu's dream and tells her everything that happened on Tuesday – how Shin killed her and her sister, but then helped her. Inkyu realises she has feelings for Shin.
Friday begins with Oka's fight with Taro about Mida. He claims he's done nothing wrong, and what Oka's heard are baseless rumors, but she doesn't believe him. She goes to her club again and talks to Supana about her relationship with Kokuma.
Supana and Kokuma meet afterschool and discuss their relationship. Kokuma apologises for trying to rush things, and Supana forgives her. Before they can make up their minds about eachother, Supana panics and runs away.
And here are the thirty four chapters of this story summarized for your reading pleasure. I hope this helps you get back on track and enjoy the story like you did before, with regular updates.
Here's a small bonus...
Sunday, night...
?'s POV
She'd had quite a productive weekend. Turning her computer off and going to sleep at last at 2:00 AM, she thought her strategy through once again.
Since Thursday, she'd been spreading rumors about that slut of a teacher, Mida Rana. She dared touch her senpai! She nearly raped him-!
Ayano felt her rage reignited at the thought os that whore... Who did she think she was? Her sweetest, purest senpai... he couldn't protect himself when she threw herself at him like that! He was too precious and kind to defy even that disgusting woman. Oh, how much she craved to show her her hatred... slam her head on that table where she hurt him, drive a knife through her giant, fake breasts... But she couldn't.
She sighed. Once everything was in order, she could take care of him forever~ Not like these sluts who only wanted to use him.
Speaking of sluts...
Her plan to expose Mida's crimes against her senpai was brilliant in its simplicity. No-one could deny what happened, but if it was necessary she had a few panty shots ready to pay for the whole footage of what happened. She had it all covered, as always before. Her previous... failures... with Oka would come to an end soon with this one, swift victory.
Once the teachers know what happened, Mida Rana would be fired immidiately. But that was only half of her success.
She saw how much of an ungrateful bitch Oka Ruto was. She got to spend time with her senpai whenever she wanted, no matter how much she hurt and offended him... He hugged her even. And she dared get angry with him? She couldn't possibly comprehend how she could find excuses to do it. It would seem she didn't love him at all...
On Thursday, when she heard about the rumors for the first time, she acted like she had no idea what happened. Like senpai was responsible for all of it. She hid in her stupid club afterwards... she really was pathetic. And on Friday, she yelled at him. She dared raise her voice in his sacred presence. It was unforgivable, but... it worked in her favor. If she convinced everyone the rumors about Rana were true, the whore would be fired, and the witch dealt with in no time.
She couldn't contain her laughter.
Everything was going exactly as she planned it...
Author's notes: I thought we haven't checked on ? in a while, so there you go - she's as busy as always.
See you soon!
~Navypink